Livestock

Now that your pets and mounts don't take up space in your bags, Livestock lets you manage them intelligently. This addon sorts your companions into land mounts, flying mounts, and vanity pets. Then, with the push of a button, you can randomly summon any of the three, or designate a favorite pet to have out on command.

You can also have Livestock always keep a pet by your side, and have it dismiss your vanity pet when you are in PVP battle and it would give away your position.

You can even tell Livestock to put you on a random land or flying mount depending on whether the area you're in lets you fly or not. Underwater or in combat, Livestock can also be configured to cast certain spells relating to travel, such as Path of Frost or Ghost Wolf.

New to version 1.2 and above, you can designate certain pets or mounts to be called in certain zones or subzones. Ride in style on a Frostwolf Howler while in Alterac Valley, and then switch to your favorite color of Mechanostrider while in Ironforge. Livestock will let you make sure that you have your good luck pet out whenever you're in Ulduar or Trial of the Crusader.

You can summon critters, land mounts, and flying mounts in various ways. See the ReadMe file for more information.

Localization Help:

Livestock currently only works for the enUS, deDE, eES, ruRU, and frFR clients. (The client is only localized completely for the enUS client, and assistance in localizing is always appreciated!) If you are on another client, Livestock will load but will show all English strings. If you are willing to help localize the addon for your language, please let me know - you'd only need to provide some simple translations and I'd do the rest. You can reach me through the Private Message system available here.

Slash Commands:

There are currently eight slash commands for the addon. View the ReadMe file for a more in-depth explanation. /livestock and /ls both work for commands.

Use "/livestock" to bring up the main menu bar.

Use "/livestock reset" to move the four Livestock Buttons back to their default positions.

Use "/livestock scale <scale>" to change the size of the Livestock Buttons.

Use "/livestock prefs" as a shortcut to access the preferences, described in the ReadMe.

Use "/livestock redo" to force Livestock to reset to default. Useful for squashing buggy behavior at the cost of having to reset your settings.

Use "/livestock [zone/subzone]" to designate a pet or mount for your current zone or subzone. For more information, check the ReadMe.

Use "/livestock debug" - Prints out useful debugging information that can assist the developers in solving problems. Use the command again to turn off the debugging output.

Livestock Options and Preferences:

You can find the options for Livestock in the Addons tab of the Blizzard Interface options menu. The "Livestock" tab has the major options, while options for pets, Smart Mounting, and zone/subzone preferences are in sub-menus. You can read more about the preferences in the ReadMe file.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

If you find unexpected behavior in Livestock, especially in locales other than enUS, please check the FAQ first to see if it has been addressed and if there is a possible fix.

Please report any bugs you find with Livestock -- or feature requests you'd like to see -- using the "Report Bugs" or "Feature Request" button underneath the Download button, up and to the right. I appreciate your feedback and support.

If you are reporting a bug, the following information is helpful: Any error messages that you saw, where you were (if you can give coordinates, that's excellent), what you were trying to do, what your menus looked like, and what class you play.

Thanks!

Well-deserved credit goes to the following people:

Khanthal (Uldum), for the original idea and being our MT so often!

A BIG thank you to Sbo (UI and Macros forum, Live) who helped me figure out what was the issue with Dalaran and Wintergrasp as well as suggesting the way to get around it.

Grimgear (UI and Macros forum, Live) for helping troubleshoot a bug, pointing me to keybindings, and suggesting rotation speed. Also for pointing out how best to adjust my GUI to compensate for localization.

Lunessa (UI and Macros forum, Live) for pointing me to Blizzard's instructions on creating panels in the Interface menu.

Xelron (UI and Macros forum, Live) for helping construct debug messages to get more information and indirectly convincing me to make my own dropdowns.

Ro (UI and Macros forum, Beta) for the 3D model viewer idea. Ro also originally suggested making my own custom dropdowns, which I thought was beyond me!

Elloria and Tgulics (WoWInterface) for helping spread the word and test the addon in its early stages and for suggesting highlighting the buttons when they're clicked.

The MVPs (UI and Macros forum) for providing the resources needed to accomplish this one as well as stepping in and answering my questions from time to time. Special thanks to Alestane and Iriel for helping me with secure handlers.

kdkunde (WoWInterface) for helping translate this mod into German so far!

Vastilia (WoWInterface) and Yorgl (Curse) for helping translate into French!

madbit (WoWInterface) for the Spanish translation.

simply (Curse) for the Russian localization.

Certainly not least, Brenkite (Uldum) for being my personal troubleshooter and moral support.

Version 2.3.9

- TOC update for patch 6.2

Version 2.3.8

- Fixed Nagrand garrison mounts

Version 2.3.7

- Added support for Chauffeured Mekgineer's Chopper and Chauffeured Mechano-Hog

Version 2.3.6

- Added Aspect of the Cheetah to combat forms

Version 2.3.5

- Corrected Garrison Ability to support other languages
- Flying Carpets now only require 300 tailoring

Version 2.3.4

- Support for Dustmane Direwolf and Creeping Carpet

Version 2.3.3

- Fix for silly LUA errors (coding too fast)

Version 2.3.2

- New option to use Travel Form in land areas

Version 2.3.1

- Restrict Nagrand option to not use siege tanks and only use mounts if learned

Version 2.3.0

- Added Garrison Mounts option for Nagrand

Version 2.2.7

- Restrict autosummon pets while in vehicles to prevent issues with vehicle buttons

Version 2.2.6

- Will once again summon flying mounts underwater in flying zones
- Fixed issue with pet auto-summons and barbershops
- Druids now only summon travel form underwater if they are moving
- Moonkin form now supported when canceling travel form (while moving)

- Moonkins now remain in moonkin form when mounting (fix for non-combo button)

Version 2.2.0

- Fixed dragging pets into the Zone/Subzone screen
- Disabled dragging mounts into the Zone/Subzone screen (use the command line)
- Better handling of the new flying mounts in land menu setting
- Moonkins now remain in moonkin form when mounting

Version 2.1.0

- Hide mounts from the opposite faction

Version 2.0.5

- Fixed flying dismounts for non-druids

Version 2.0.4

- New Option: Include flying mounts in land menu
- More druid fixes

Version 2.0.3

- Fixed Death Knights and Paladins
- Additional fixes for Druids

Version 2.0.2

- Support Flight Form when using Glyph of the Stag

Version 2.0.1

- Fixed error on non-hunters

Version 2.0.0

- Support for patch 6.0.2
- Fixed some issues with druid forms
- Low level druids will use cat form until they learn travel form
- Aspect of the Hawk removed (can cancel AotC/AotP when mounting)

Originally posted by Jackson I've tried these and am not getting any luck. Patiently waiting for a fix

Me too!

Erm, I mean, I guess I should work on that.

In reality, I'm trying to figure out exactly what CAUSES the issue. I haven't been able to reliably duplicate the bug on my own yet, which means I don't know how to address the fix. If you're really eager, try this additional step:

In Azeroth, it tries to summon a land mount indoors (it might try to summon a flying mount in Outland/Northrend, but haven't tried that). Probably should check for outdoors first

For Druids, if you're indoors, I'd like to have another checkbox option to shift into cat form (if I'm currently in caster form) since there's a feral talent that increases cat form speed that works indoors now. This should be optional since not all druids would want this, as well as make sure you don't shift us out of any form other than caster.

I've incorporated your macro code into my own 'smart mount' macro for now. I need to do more testing, but it works fine in Azeroth.

Hi EvilJookie, thanks for the contributions. I'll add an indoors check -- I usually just wait until I'm safely outdoors before I try and mount up, but this will help cut down on some error text.

I'll also look into the best way to implement the cat form switch - it sounds like you'd want that to happen when you were indoors and indoors only? I'll see if that's possible - I *think* there are areas that the game as identifies as indoors even though you can mount there. I might be wrong though - I'll add this to the list!

In Azeroth, it tries to summon a land mount indoors (it might try to summon a flying mount in Outland/Northrend, but haven't tried that). Probably should check for outdoors first

For Druids, if you're indoors, I'd like to have another checkbox option to shift into cat form (if I'm currently in caster form) since there's a feral talent that increases cat form speed that works indoors now. This should be optional since not all druids would want this, as well as make sure you don't shift us out of any form other than caster.

I've incorporated your macro code into my own 'smart mount' macro for now. I need to do more testing, but it works fine in Azeroth.

Originally posted by Recompense Scharr, thanks for this comment. My hunch is that when you log out and log in again, you'll see the menu working right. You can also do a /console reloadui.

I've had this happen to me before, and I can't figure out why yet. Many people have said they see it happen too, so it's definitely on my list of things to fix. However, once you do get the menus to show up properly, I've found they stay fixed.

I've tried these and am not getting any luck. Patiently waiting for a fix

Originally posted by kdkunde Hi,
First: Great addon
It's a pity it doesn't work on german client. At least the flying/epic mount logic does not. After a short look at the source code I found the logic to decide what kind of mount it is, is hardcoded in english by searching certain keywords in the mounts tooltip. So please could you add those keywords to the localisation.lua. I will then be able to provide a german translation in a localisation-deDE.lua.

kdkunde, I sent you a PM last night with more details - if you haven't checked it yet, I let you how I'm planning to address this with your help!

Originally posted by Scharr Just got this mod running, and it works fine for my land mounts and critters.
However, I can't get anything to show up under the button for flying mounts. I only have one, and it's non-epic. My Snowy Gryphon.

I can still use it via the pets tab on the character menu, but Livestock doesn't seem to agree that I actually have one at all.

Suggestions?

Scharr, thanks for this comment. My hunch is that when you log out and log in again, you'll see the menu working right. You can also do a /console reloadui.

I've had this happen to me before, and I can't figure out why yet. Many people have said they see it happen too, so it's definitely on my list of things to fix. However, once you do get the menus to show up properly, I've found they stay fixed.

Originally posted by Ruana I downloaded this yesterday, and I can get the bar to show up, and set up a keybind, but....I have no buttons. Anywhere. And also I didn't seem to be able to get a macro? Is it supposed to make one automatically? The instructions didn't seem to explain it well enough for my small brain. So the only way I could get it to work for my mount was to keybind, but I'd really rather have a button I can put on my bar, with the bar having the mount keybind. Is this possible? Are my buttons just lost in the ether of all my other mods?

Ruana, check in your Interface options in the Blizzard menu. You should have an "AddOns" tab and one of the options should be Livestock. You can access the buttons and the macro-generator in there.

Just got this mod running, and it works fine for my land mounts and critters.
However, I can't get anything to show up under the button for flying mounts. I only have one, and it's non-epic. My Snowy Gryphon.

I can still use it via the pets tab on the character menu, but Livestock doesn't seem to agree that I actually have one at all.

I downloaded this yesterday, and I can get the bar to show up, and set up a keybind, but....I have no buttons. Anywhere. And also I didn't seem to be able to get a macro? Is it supposed to make one automatically? The instructions didn't seem to explain it well enough for my small brain. So the only way I could get it to work for my mount was to keybind, but I'd really rather have a button I can put on my bar, with the bar having the mount keybind. Is this possible? Are my buttons just lost in the ether of all my other mods?